Channel-entrance for typographical machines.



s. E. SPERRY. CHANNEL ENTRANCE FOR TYPOGRAPHJC MACHINES APPLICATION FILED SEPT- ZII 1916* r 1,245,055. Patented 0d. 30, 1917'.

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ATTORNEY v s. E. SPERRY. CHANNEL ENTRANCE FOR TYPOGRAPHIC MACHINES. I APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27. 1916- i Y 1,245,055. Patented vOct. 30, 1917.

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SAMUEL E. Sim-m, or woonHAvEN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 'ro' INTERTYPE CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK,'N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK CHANNEL-ENTRANCE ron TYPOGBAPHIC MACHINES,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented 0013.30, 1917.

Application filed September 27, 1916. Serial 1V0. 122,451.

State of New York, have invented new and ,useful Improvements in Channel-Entrances for Typographic Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in typographical machines, and more especially, to those of the'linotype class, as described in the patent to Ottmar Mergenthaler, No.. 436,532, granted September 16, 1890. vIn machines of that type, type bars or slugs are cast from lines of matrices which are stored in a matrix magazine and delivered therefrom under the control. of a keyboard manipulated by the-operator, the matrices, after a cast has been made therefrom, being returned to their respective channels or compartments of the magazine by distributing mechanism.

The present invention is more particularly applicable to a machine of the class mentioned which embodies two or more matrix magazines, any. one of which may be brought to an operative position relatively to the matrix delivery and distributing mechanisms. A plural magazine machine of such type is shown and described in prior appli cation of Thomas S. Homans, Semal No.

3 833,738, filed April 22, 1914, the present invention being intended particularly as an improvement upon the machine shownin that application. In mac inesof this type, and as shown in the Hom ns application referred to, a multiple chuteknown as a channel entrance is providedbetween the distributer and thematrix-receiving end of the magazine, this channelentrance serving to properly guide anddirect the matrices from the distributer into the appropriate channels or compartments of the magazine.

Experience has shown that because of dis crepancies in worlnnanship,slight springing of the framework of the machine, or other causes, the channel entrance at times will be slightly out of register with the operative magazine, this being particularly likely to Occur where the machine embodies two or more magazines with means for bringing any one of the magazines into operative position.

Theprimary object of the present invention. is to provide an improved channel entrance which will be self-registering with reably proportioned in relation to the thicknes'ses of the matrices, the matrices will be guided more accurately as they enter the magazine and yet ample space will be provided at the top of the entrance channel to permit the matrices to fall into the respec-. tive spacesof the entrance from tributen To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the features of novelty being pointed out particularly in the claims. v In the accompanying drawings the dis- Y Figure 1 represents a side elevation, partly 5 in section, of the upper portion of a typographical machine of the linotype class embodying the present invention, the channel entrance being shown in Operative position by the full lines and in inoperative position by the dotted lines; Y

Fig.2 represents a vertical section through the upper portion of a magazine and the adjacent parts of the machine, showing the.

Fig. 3 represents, on an enlarged scale, a vertical section ,through the channel entrance;

Fig. 4 is a'diagrammatic view illustrating the passage of a matrix from thechannel entrance and into the magazine; 3

channel entrance as viewed from the front;

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of one of the partitions of the channel entrance and Y Fig 6 is a detail view of portions bf the channel entrance and 1ts carrying frame showing the manner in which the channel.

entrance is supported by the carrying frame while the channel entrance is out ofoperative relation with the magazine. 4

Similar parts are designated by the same reference characters in the several views.

The present invention is applicable generally to typograp ical machines employing circulating matrices. It isparticnlarly ap-d BEST AVAlLABLE- COP plieable to machines of the linotype class and more especially to machines of this class "embodying :a plurality of magazines and means for bringing .the different magazines into operative position. The preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing and will be hereinafter described in detail, this embodiment of the invention 'being especially applicable to a machine constructed as shown and described in the Homans'application referred to. It is to be understood, however, that the invention is not restricted to the ar-' ticular construction shown, noris it limited in its a plication to machines of the types referre to, as other uses may be foun or the invention and constructions equivalent to that shown may be used, all of which will be included within the present invention and within the scope of the claims.

iIn the present instance, ldesignates the upper portion of the main frame ofa typographical machine of the linotype class, this frame serving to support the distributer beam 2 to which the distributer rail'3 is attached. The dist'ributer, of which the rail .2 forms a part,may be of the same general construction aS,tha't commonly used inmachines of the linotype class. As. shown, so the lower edge of this rail is provided with the usual combination ribs to cotiperate with the teeth in the'upper recesses of the matrices whereby the matrices .will ban upon the lower edge of the rail while they are advanced and the will drop from the, rail when they reac positions above their re-' spective channels or compartmentsin the magazine. Advancement of the matrices along the rail is effected by the distributer feed screws 4. M represents one of the mat- .rices, suspended from the distributer rail or has. In the present instance, the machine is constructed so as to contain two magazines 5 and 6, either one of which may be brought-into operative positiom'the upper. magazinet being shown in operative position in 'fFig. 1, These magazines are supported and positioned by a magazine frame and any suitablemeans, such, for'example, as that shown in the Homans application referred to, may be employed for shifting this frame to brin the desired magazine into operative position where it may deliver matrices bv manipulation of thekeyboard of the machine, and it may receive matrices returned thereto by the distributer.

A suitable number of brackets 8 are attached to the frame 1 and a channelentrance frame 9 is pivoted on these brackets and on the axis 10. To the upper or-free end of the frame 9 is pivoted a supplementary channel entrance frame 11, this supplementary frame being pivoted on the axis 12. The supplementar frame carries the chan- 65 nel entrance, and t IlS channel entrance commapper prises, preferably, a curved rear plate 13 which is to the frame 11, a co'ciperative f10n,",,plate 14, and a suitable. number of partiljapns" 15 which are fitted between the plates mentioned. The partitions 7 15, as shown, are provided at their rear edges with pairs of lugs 16 which project through openings 17 in the plate 13,. anfl these lugs have hook-shaped portions to look upon an edge ofthe opening 17. A bar 18 in rear of the plate 13 is arranged to bear upon the lugs 16 and thereb retain them in locked position, the bar eing held in locked position by screws or e uivalent devices '19; The-front plate 14 o the channel 30 entrance may beheld in place by a bar 20 which passes through lugs 21 which project forwardly from the partitions 15 and throu h openings 22 in the front plate. Suita le spacing of the upper ends of the 5 partitions maybe secured by a plate 23 which, as shown, is set in the upper portion of the frame 11 and. has notches 24 which cotiperate with lugs 25 projecting from the rear ed es of the partitions.

The ot-ward movement of the frame 9 is limited by set screws 26 which may be mounted in the brackets 8. Set screws 27 are provided forf t he purpose of supporting the supplementary frame 11 on the frame 9 when the channel entrance is moved to an inoperative position, (this being shown in Fig. 6) the supplementary frame carrying thechannel entrance being, however, positioned relatively to the magazine by means 190 inde endent of these setscrews 27. Preferab y, andas shown, the channel entrance is provided toward each side the'reof with a cam-like finger 2 8, which, when the channel entrance approaches operative relation with 5' the magazine, rides upon the upper side of the magazine and guides the channel entrance for movement longitudinally of the magazine, and as the channel entrance'moves into operative.position,n these fingers neon-' rately aline the'matrix spaces of the channel entrance at the proper elevation with resect to the matrix channels in the magazine. It is'advantageous toso adjust the set screws 27 andthechannel positioning-fingers 28 that the framell prrying the chin nel entrance will be raised ofi' ofzthe set screws 27 when the channel entrance is p'ositioned by the fingers 28, this being shown in Fig. 3. This arrangement not only en-,12 ables the fingers 28 to aceurat'ely'position the channel entrance accordingto variationsj in the positionoccupied bythemagazinmbut. it also enables the upper end of-the channel entrance to cleanvlmymatrices hanging from 25 the distributer bar when the channel entrance is swung into inoperative position preparatory to changing of the magazines,

as the channel entrEincewi-ll'be permitted to descend as it moves rcarivardly' iqlsuch an moving the channel entrance to inoperative position, as shown by the dotted lines'in Fig. 1, preparatory to a change of magazines, and trance to operative position after such change has been made. shown, a lever 29 may be pivoted near the front of the machine within reach of the operator, this lever being connected by a link 30 to the frame 9 at 31. When the channel entrance is in inoperative position, the supplementary framell which directly carries the entrance will be supported on the frame 9 by the set screws 27. While the channel entrance is in inoperative .position, it may be further swung to the substantially inverted position, as shown by the dotted lines at the extreme right of Fig. 1, the motion of the channel entrance in such direction beinglimited, preferably, by a stop 32 on the frame 9. The present invention also provides an 35 improved partition for channel entrance which will insure correct'pfassage of the matrices through the entrance and into the magazine. The spaces in thechannel entrance For example, as

for returning the channel ena and thereby position the entrance relatively between the partitions are proportioned ae- 40 cordingto the size of the matrices belongingin the corresponding magazine channels, and some of these spaces are.

so large that when a font of narrow faced commonly made.

matrices is employed, the. matrices falling through'the wider spaces of the channel entrance havesuflicient room to turn or twist angularly to such an extent that they. are

likely to enter between the plates of the magazine without enga therefor. This difiiculty is avoided by emwith the present invention. the present instance, its lower portion oifset laterally, as at 33, and a leaf 34 is welded or otherwise fastened to the recessed side of the partition. This leaf is so shaped that it will restrict the matrix space in the channel entrance in proximity to the magazine. For example,

as shown, the leaf diverges outwardly as it extends downwardly from the ofl'set 33 of the partition, it,.reaching its maximum. divergence at a point approximately at the upper end of the magazine and then converges toward the partition, it reaching the parging the grooves plementary frame and the entrance thereon.

tition at the lower end thereof. By arranging the lowerends of both the partition and the leaf so that they enter the magazines, it is possible to construct the leaf of very thin material and to bring the. ends of the leaf and the partitinn together. thereby preventing yielding of these parts'under the pressure of the falling matrices.

I claim I 1. In a typographical machine embodying a matrix magazine. a inatrix distributor therefor, and a channel entrance arranged between the magazine and distributer and movable in a direction longitinlinally of the magazine, means cooperative with the magazine for insuring accurate registration of the entrance with the magazine.

2. In a' typographical machine embodying a matrix magazine, and a matrix distributor therefor, an intermediate channel entrance movable to and from an operative position in a direction longitudinally of the maga-- zine and provided with means to cooperate with the magazine and thereby position the entrance accurately relatively to the magazine.

3. in a typographical machine embodying a matrix magazine, a channel entrance therefor movable to and from an operative position relatively thereto and carrying de- 9 vices to rest upon the upper side of the magazine to guide the channel entrance for movement longitudinally of the magazine thereto.

4. In a typographical machine embodying a matrix magazine and a matrix distributor therefor, a channel entrance, means for mounting the same to move to and from an operatlve posltion between the magazine and distributer, the channel entrance having jmeaiis to cooperate with the magazine to support the entrance in register therewith,

and means to support the entrance after the latter has been moved out of operative reiation with the magazine.

,5 5 In a typographical machine of the class embodying'a matrix magazine and a'matrixdistributor, a channel entrance, a swinging frame, and a supplementary frame pivoted ploying partitions constructed in accordance V As shown in each partition 15 has on Sali swinging frame-and carrying the entraiice, and means normally inoperative but operative after the entrance is moved away from the magazine to support the sup 6. In a typographical machine of the class embodying a matrix magazine and a matrix distributer, a channel entrance, a swinging frame to which said entrance is movably. connected and operative to carry the entrance to and from an operative position between tlie magazine and distributer, and means on the entrance to cooperate with the magazine and thereby guide and hold the entrance in alinementwith the magazine.

7. In a typographical machine embodying a magazine having matrixchannels, a channel entrance comprising a plurality of partitions forming matrix-guiding spaces between them, certain of the partitions being composed of two thicknesses of material spread apart laterally and rejoined at a point within the magazine.

8. In atypographical machine embodying a magazine having matrix channels, a channel entrance comprising a plurality of partitions forming matrix-guiding spaces be tween them;' certain of the partitions being SAMUEL E. SPERRY.

Witnesses:

A. WHEATLEY, A. M. Rotrn, 

